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Cobra Nose Micro Gathering
During the DixieLand Metalshapers Gathering last fall, Bob Baisden and I both bought Cobra bodies. I got a 289 FIA body and he got a 427 body. His body has been decorating our yard since and when he decided to come get it this weekend, we decided to play around with making some panels. Some of the local guys came over:
From left are Jamie Hunter, Dan Shady, Johnny Moss, and Bob Baisden. Jeff Newton and Scott Reid (who sold us the bodies) dropped by also. I guess all in all we have about 40 total man hours in it so far. Dan, Bob and I put in half a day Friday. Jamie came in Saturday morning and Johnny got in about Noon. Here is where we were at 5pm Sunday afternoon. Do I look happy? I've got about 140 more photos. We used a variety of processes from the Eckolds, to stumps, bags, ewheels, and concrete hammer forms. After this gets the last little panel done and the edges trimmed and wired. It's going to get clear coat and become an awning over my walk in door.
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Made it home safe (i.e. no tickets). I could not have had a better time with some really cool guys. Thank your wife for me. Mabe we could build the back of the car over the rear door of the shop. Johnny
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Johnny Moss Last edited by JPMOSS; 02-12-2012 at 10:49 PM. |
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I second that. I had lots of fun and, as always, learned a lot. I took a lot of pictures too. I'll post some later this week once I have a chance to get them loaded onto the computer.
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I would also like to say Thanks Kerry for having us. A fun group of fellows to work with. Think that I won the most ugly panel contest. Dan
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Dan Shady |
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Looks like a great weekend had by all!
140 pictures when did you have time to work/play
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Rick Scott The second mouse gets the cheese! |
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Thanks everyone, I had a great time! Lets keep it going
Bob |
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Nice job guys , would have loved to be there for that one . Lots to do and no time for diddling .Great learning environment .
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Dan Pate |
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More pictures. That was fun. JPMOSS
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Johnny Moss Last edited by JPMOSS; 02-13-2012 at 10:10 AM. |
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We got started a little before noon on Friday. Dan Shady and I pulled from flexible shape patterns (FSP) from the fender tops.
Bob Baisden finished the right front fender top. We used Glad PressNSeal for the base with overlapped fiberglas strapping tape on top. I really like this combination. There is actually a lot of shape in the fender tops. In fact the entire car has a lot more shape than appears at first glance. Almost EVERY frigging panel had at LEAST one reverse and most had two or more. Reverse curves look cool but dang they are a pain to shape. Then we made a FSP for the nose section. Then the shaping began. Bob brought his brand new Eckold tooling and was trying it out. Everyone used the tools they were the most comfortable with. Dan and I started on the nose section and here Dan is cleaning up the cut lines We also made a paper pattern (paper doll) to show where the metal needs to be stretched and shrunk Smoothing on the wheel. Trim and file. We made the panels large on purpose but soon found that since they were reverses the extra material caused LOTS of extra work so we trimmed closer. Bob and Dan fitting the FSP and deciding what needed to happen next. One thing I like about the PressNSeal base is that it will stay in place when you press it down. This makes it handy to just lift it up to do some work and lay it back down to see the results. Here I'm stretching the reverse edges using NOMAR stretching dies in the Eckold. Could have used a kick stretcher or the ewheel. Getting there. The black circles are areas that need to be shrunk. Right in the center of this big panel. There are several ways we could have approached this, traditional off doly work, Dan Gunit's Donut Dolly, or power tools. We decided to use Cass Nawrocki's Ewheel shrinking technique because Dan had never seen it in person. With a wide anvil that matches the contour of the panel, the gap between the rollers was set to more than the metal thickness. As the area that needed to be shrunk was rolled through the rollers, UPWARD pressure is applied. Because the metal is constrained by the rest of the panel and the panel is LIFTED as it passes the high area. The metal shrinks. Dan said, "That's just like shrinking off dolly but a lot quicker!". Then it was time to put the reverses in the correct orientation. Because we were going to work on the actual fiberglas body, we annealed the aluminum edges with a propane weed burner using a wide point marker as a temperature mark. (When the marker burns off it's annealed) Caution, just a LITTLE more and the aluminum melts. Ask me how I know. Then we used a blodger and a UHMW rod to slap the annealed reverses down into place. The nose edge was quite easy. We just clamped the panel firmly in place and slapped it around. The weld will be in the middle of the roll. And here is the finished center section. It was a lot more difficult than we originally thought. The center section was the basis for fitting everything else. We must have had it off and on a hundred times over the weekend. More later...got to work now.
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Kerry Pinkerton |
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Looks like you guys had fun. also very nice work.
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Joe |
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